Weather-strip.



T. LEE.

WEATHER STRIP;

APPLICATION FILED MAY 3, 1012.

Patented Feb. 25, 1913.

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. y @Wj W THOMAQ LEE, OF SAYLER PARK, OHIO.

WEATHER-STRIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 3, 1912. Serial No. 694,889.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS LEE, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Sayler Park, Hamilton county, State of Ohio, have invented acertain new and useful l/Veather-Strip; and I do declare the followingto be a clear, full, and exact description of the invention, attentionbeing called to the drawing which accompanies this application and formsa part thereof.

This invention concerns weather-strips, devices used in connection withwindows, to exclude dust, cold and rain, and incidentally to preventalso rattling ofthe sashes.

It relates more particularly to such a strip intended for use inconnection with sashes constructed of sheet-metal and it consists ofsuch a strip and of a sash constructed in a manner to permit readyattachment of the particular strip.

In the following specification'and particularly pointed out in theclaims at the end thereof, will be found a full description of myinvent-ion, together with its arts and construction, which latter isalso lllustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1, shows across-section of one of the frame-members of a metallic sash before theweather-strip is applied. Fig; 2, shows a similar view with the strip inposition. Fig. 3, shows the frame-member illustrated in the precedingview as it appears when in position in its com lementary windowframe, aportion of Fig. 4, shows in perspective view a portion of thisframe-member at a corner of the sash of which it forms a part.

In the drawing, A indicates part of one of the upright members or stilesof a sashframe and B shows part of one of the connected horizontalmembers. These members may be constructed in any of the conventionalWays practised in to embody a groove 0' glass-panel C, the edges ofwhich are in these grooves. frame-members, meaning that part which'seats against the window-frame I) and which in case of the upri htmember moves in a sash-way (Z forme 1n the windowframe as shown in Fig.3. This back forms a connected part of its respective sashframe member,its connection being accom plished in any suitable manner known to theart. Lock-seams are used, at corners this latter being shown.

this art and so as for reception of the seated r a is the back oftheseand by preference they are located in this case on the outercorners of the framemembers, meaning those corners seated in thewindow-frame as clearly shown in the drawing. The back between itslongitudinal edges is shaped to embody, so as to be within the hollowframe-member, but open outwardly, a flat fold or pocket 7, for receptionof flange 8, of the weather-strip 9, said fold extending longitudinallyof the back and being also open at the ends to permit insertion of saidstrip which is slipped in endwise. This strip forms an angle with itsflange so that, when in place, part of it near its free edge lies flatagainst. the op- Patcnted Feb. 25, 191 3.

posite surface in the sash-way as best shown in Fig. Elastic metal isused to insure such contact and by preference spring brass to obtain aneasy sliding movement. In constructing this back, the pocket formed init is so located that its open part, longitudinally considered, is closeto one of the lock-seams by which one edge of the back is connected tothe adjacent edge of the sashmember of which it forms a part. Therebythe edge which results at 11 in consequence of the infolding of themetal to formthe pocket, will be opposite and close to the edge whichresults at 10 where the metal of the sash member is turned over the edgeof the back to form this lock-seam. A narrow slot 12 results betweenthese opposite edges which constitutes the open part of the pocketthrough which the weather-strip protrudes and etween which edges it issecurely held, edge 10 forming a check which hollow frame-membersprovided with a slot extending longitudinally thereof and with acommunicating pocket which extends from lthis slot into the hollowframe-member, in i combination with a weather-strip provided with aflange adapted to seat in this pocket and protruding through the slotmentioned.

2. In combination, a metallic sash having the back of itshollow-frainc-members folded inwardly between its longitudinal edges toform a flat pocket between these edges, 0. weather-strip .havinga flangeadapted to seat in this pocket and a check provided opposite the openpart of this poeket to retain the Weather-strip in posilion.

A hollow, metallic sash frame-member comprising a hack adapted to occupythe sash-way of a \x 'indow-t'rame and engaged at its outer longitudinaledges by the overturned metal of said frame-member of which it forms apart and folded inwardly between these'edges to form a fiatpocket withinthe hollow part of the frame-mem- Witnesses ROBERT E. LEE, C. SPENGEL.

